The number of people with diabetes exceeded 300M

The number of people with diabetes exceeded 300 million

The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Saudi Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Director of Al-Thaghr Hospital in Jeddah, Dr. Nasser Raja Allah Al-Juhani, revealed that the death rate due to diabetes has reached more than 22 thousand deaths in Saudi Arabia annually, explaining that diabetes is spreading significantly in the world at a rate of diagnosis of two cases every 10 seconds, and the number of injured Around the world, it reached 387 million infected people in 2014 AD, and it is subject to increase by 2020 AD, to reach 592 million infected people, an increase of 55%, and half of the infected people around the world are not diagnosed.

This came during the opening of the Eighth Jeddah Diabetes Conference, which came under the title Developments in Endocrinology and Diabetes, which is one of the initiatives launched by the Saudi Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Hayat Park Hotel and in the presence of the Director General of the General Administration of Family at the Ministry of Health Dr. Yasser Al-Ghamdi and a number of hospital directors, doctors and doctors. .

On this occasion, the director of Al-Thaghr Hospital in Jeddah, Dr. Nasser Raja Allah Al-Juhani, confirmed that the number of diabetes deaths around the world exceeded 5 million people in 2014 due to its complications, and it is the main cause of the death of one person every 7 seconds. And 75% of deaths among infected people are caused by atherosclerosis, heart and stroke.

Al-Juhani pointed out that diabetes is the main cause of impotence, blindness, kidney failure and lower limbs amputation. As for the Kingdom, it is ranked among the top ten countries in the world where diabetes is prevalent, as it ranks seventh in the world in terms of the prevalence of the disease by 24% in the age group. Between 30-79 years, as the number of injured is estimated to be three million eight hundred thousand and six hundred injured in 2014 AD, explaining that one and a half million injured are undiagnosed in Saudi Arabia. While the Federal Union estimates that the death rate due to diabetes is more than 22 thousand deaths in Saudi Arabia annually.

Al-Juhani stated that the conference will discuss the most important challenges and solutions that will enhance the prevention and treatment of diabetes for policymakers that will help prevent it over a period of three days and also ensure the provision of successful treatment for people with diabetes, the enhancement of the role of primary health care, the development of specialized training programs for health practitioners and the application of modern electronic treatment systems. The application of the electronic file, the support of scientific research and the measurement of performance indicators will contribute effectively to improving the level of medical services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and we hope that the leaders of health care in the Kingdom will adopt these recommendations because of their benefits that will benefit the Saudi society, God willing.

After that, the Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah Governorate, Dr. Mubarak bin Hassan Dhafer, delivered a speech in which he indicated that the steady increase in the number of people with diabetes worldwide has become frightening. And even terrifying, as the number of people infected with the disease in the world exceeded more than 300 million, according to the statistics of the World Health Organization, which confirm that this number is subject to increase and increase by the year 2025 AD.

Dr. Mubarak emphasized that the Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is keen to provide the best health and treatment services for diabetics and endocrine patients by establishing specialized and advanced health centers for diabetes in various regions and governorates of the Kingdom, except for the great services it provides to these patients in hospitals and primary health care centers. Scattered in all neighborhoods in cities and villages.

On the other hand, the President of the Saudi Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dr. Atallah Al-Rahili, indicated that the conference will last for three days, with 30 credit hours from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, with the participation of 35 consultants and specialists to discuss possible ways and discuss developments and the latest preventive measures against diabetes and other endocrine diseases.